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Rush Jobs

Some people need a job done quickly or by a specific date. Here are some of the other factors involved in a Rush Job.

To take on a Rush job, I either have to push back the estimated completion dates for all the other jobs I'm doing (which means that the other clients won't get their furnisture as soon) OR I have to work more hours each day.

A Rush job is defined as any job needed by a specific date (usually very quickly). A Super Rush job is one where I have to stop my current project, do the Super Rush Job, and then go back to that current job.

I often have a number of jobs booked ahead. Each job takes me from a couple days to a week or two, depending upon the size of the job.

I have time in between each job when I clean up and have table space to work on Rush Jobs. If I try to do a Rush job while I'm in the midst of another job, then I have to move everything from my current job aside and work on the filler job.

Then, when I try to get back to the job that I was on before I interrupted it, I often don't remember where I was and have to take some time getting organized. I also have to restack all the pieces back together. In other words, when I interrupt the job I'm on to try to work in a Super Rush job, it can cost me some hours of work to get everything organized again, and I have lost my train of thought.

I say all this to get to this point. I rarely interrupt a job because of all the extra time and work it costs me. In order for a Rush job to work in a timely manner, I need to have all the fabrics (if any) and supplies on hand and ready to go way ahead of time. That way, when I finish the current job I can do the Rush job in between jobs and thus not mess up something that I'm in the middle of.

Often the jobs I work on take longer than expected. However, sometimes jobs go quicker than expected. If I finish a job before the supplies for the Rush job arrive, then I go onto the next job and the Rush job is bumped back until I finish that job. This is why it is important that we have the fabrics and supplies on hand well in advance of when we'll be doing the Rush job.

I'm often booked out two or three months. I rarely give completion dates because each job is different and many of the jobs I do require a complete rebuilding, which takes much time.

If a job needs to be done by a particular date, and I have to interrupt a job to do that, then there will be a Super RUSH FEE to pay for all the extra time and work involved.

I don't order supplies without a deposit. I need all those supplies here and ready to days in advance of when I can work your job in. If you wait to get the deposits to me and then I also have to order the supplies, that can be a challenge to get your job done in time. Once your supplies get to me I may have just started or am in the middle of a job. Then, unless you are willing to pay a super rush fee, your job will just have to wait until the job I'm working on is finished, which would be a few days or a week or longer.